PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY AND AFFILIATED 



SOCIETIES 



WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



The meeting of the Board of Managers on March 5, 1918, was de- 

 voted principally to the consideration of nominations and the elec- 

 tion of new members. Plans for the development of the Journal were 

 discussed, and were referred to a committee consisting of Messrs. 

 Knopf, Hrdlicka, and Maxon, to be reported on at a later meeting. 

 The dues of members absent from the United States on military or 

 naval duty were remitted. 



Dr. WdODROW WiLSQ]^, The White House, Washington, D. C, was 

 elected an honorary member of the Academy in recognition of his con- 

 tributions to economic and political history. 



Robert B. Sosman, Corresponding Secretary. 



ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



The 520th meeting of the Society was held in the West Study Room 

 of the Pubhc Library, January 29, 1918, at 8 p.m. At this meeting 

 Dr. Leo J. Frachtenberg made an address on Poland and the Polish 

 question. (No abstract.) 



The 521st meeting of the Society was held in the West Study Room 

 of the Public Library, February 12, 1918, at 8 p.m. Dr. Joseph 

 Dunn, of the Catholic University of America, was the speaker of the 

 evening and presented an interesting paper on Scotland. 



"The Scotch reached Scotland from Ireland and are not the de- 

 scendants of Gaelic Celts who had been pushed north by a later (British) 

 invasion of Britain. The first authentic information on Scotland 

 dates from the time of the Romans, 79 A.D. Roman rule in Britain 

 came to an end in 410, and Britain then ceased to be a part of the 

 Roman Empire. The population of Scotland is made up of Pictish, 

 Irish, British, Saxon, Danish, and Norman elements, all of them 

 Indo-Celtic, the three first, Celtic, the three last, Germanic peoples. 

 The Picts contributed the bulk of the population, but were overcome 

 by the Scotti (Irish), who had settled in Dalriada, a part of the 

 present county of Argyle (Airer-Goidel, 'Margo Scottorum'). The 

 Scotti then became the dominant people. Brythonic Celts dwelt in 

 Strathclyde; their chief city was Dumbarton (Dun Brettan, 'Fort of 

 the Britons'). -Towards the close of the eighth century, the Danes ap- 

 peared and ravaged the coast settlements and the isles. The Saxons 

 first appeared in 428 in Britain. In the eleventh century Norman 

 refugees first crossed the border into Scotland. 



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